The complex work processes and communication patterns exhibited in Emergency Medicine may be effectively managed through the use of information technology. These tools must be evaluated within the work environment to understand their effects on work flow, information flow, and patient safety. In this study the efficiency of the Emergency Department triage process was evaluated pre- and post- im...

OBJECTIVE To validate use of the Manchester triage system in paediatric emergency care. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING Emergency departments of a university hospital and a teaching hospital in the Netherlands, 2006-7. PARTICIPANTS 17,600 children (aged <16) visiting an emergency department over 13 months (university hospital) and seven months (teaching hospital). INTERV...

Introduction: Pre-hospital triage is one of the most fundamental concepts in emergency management. Limited human resource changes triage to an inevitable solution in the management of disasters. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of education of simple triage and rapid treatment (START) in the knowledge and practice of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) employees of Eastern Azerbaijan....

Background and Purpose: The emergency severity index (ESI) triage system has been recommended by the Ministry of Health to classify patients at emergency departments. This study aimed to assess the validity of ESI system (version 4) in the emergency department of a teaching hospital. Outcome measures were hospitalization, emergency department (ED) length of stay, resource consumption, in-hospit...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of triage education based on emergency severity index (ESI) on promoting the knowledge and performance of nurses and qualitative indices of emergency department. METHODS This study was a quasi-interventional study being performed in Vali Asr Hospital of Fasa University of Medical Sciences during 2012. For this purpose, 50 members of staff including nurses an...

OBJECTIVE To determine the current practice of nurse triage in accident and emergency departments in England, and to examine the relation between triage systems and performance in the Department of Health comparative performance guide. DESIGN A postal questionnaire was sent to all consultants in accident and emergency medicine in England. RESULTS 151 responses were analysed, representing 72...

The aim of this study was to identify the organisation of and knowledge about triage work in Swedish emergency departments (ED) as a first step to understanding what is necessary for decision support in ED triage systems in Sweden. A national survey using telephone interviews for data collection was used. Results showed great variety in how work regarding ED triage is organised and performed. T...

Background METTS has been shown to be a triage-system reducing mortality at the emergency department. It was stated that point-of-care-analysis of standardized laboratory samples in triage systems could reduce the costs for single patients. In this single centre study, we controlled if the costs for single patients at the emergency department could be reduced by standardized sampling according ...